Wireless communications systems and methods related to communicating control information are provided. A method of wireless communication performed by a first user equipment (UE) may include transmitting, to a second UE, first stage sidelink control information (SCI-1) using a first set of resources of a resource pool (RP), wherein the RP indicates resources reserved for communicating the SCI-1 and transmitting, to the second UE, the SCI-1 using a second set of resources of the RP, wherein the second set of resources is different from the first set of resources